Sentences with phrase «plantation life as»

The film's immersive depiction of the misery of plantation life as well as hangings, near - lynchings, whippings, a rape and numerous other scenes of brutal punishment proved too much for a handful of academy members Sunday night, though the mid-screening walkouts were minimal.

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Strickland recalls a BBC report of a young boy who had just been rescued from life as a slave chocolate plantation.

Synopsis: In 1933 a young woman, named Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished.

Synopsis: In 1933 a young woman, named Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had ne... [MORE]

Of course, it's a coincidence that Django Unchained arrives in the same season as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the second of two Spielberg films about slavery (after 1997's Amistad) that never expose audiences to the harsh realities of plantation life?

The always - brilliant Isabelle Huppert is the matriarch of a white family about to be kicked off their African plantation, trying desperately to hold onto the crop of coffee beans they've grown as their lives hang in danger.

Based on a true story, the plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

The plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon, McQueen adapted the memoirs of the main character along with John Ridley to chronicle Solomon's harrowing twelve years, where he went from being a freeman living in New York, to a plantation slave in New Orleans between 1841 and 1853.

There's just as much Days of Heaven as there is Roots; McQueen's incredible direction (assisted by the beautiful colors and compositions of Sean Bobbitt) provides a warm, amber color to plantation life that sharply contrasts the gritty trappings of slavery.

Huppert plays a French plantation owner in West Africa determined to harvest the coffee crop while life as she knows it is going up in the flames of a conflict in which the contending armies (government, rebels) are nearly indistinguishable.

But as the stories of Eliza's life as a slave on a southern cotton plantation and her daring escape from her slaveholders come to light, Johanna's respect, then love, builds for her peer.

Washington, the student reminds the group, grew up on a plantation and lived as a slave.

Told from the perspective of impetuous and inquisitive 10 - year - old orphan Sugar, Turpin's energetic performance depicts life on a Louisiana plantation in 1870, where sharecroppers work as slaves and newly acquired Chinese workers represent unwelcome competition.

There were now perhaps a hundred or so Korean families living in Buckle Lane and adjacent Akepo Lane — most of them having fled the plantations for the canneries, even as others abandoned the canneries to become tailors, launderers, shoemakers, or grocers.

Seventy - five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried memories of her past in order to heal a young girl abandoned to her care.

I can see that the narrative style generates a great deal of suspense and mystery, as the reader tries to understand why Placidia is so reluctant to give details of her life on the Hockaday plantation.

Read more >> A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Algonquin, $ 22.95, 304 pages In her humorous and poignant memoir of a wedding and an earthquake in the Dominican Republic, novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) attempts to answer this question as she tells the tale of a young worker on her coffee plantation, Piti, and his efforts to make a life by traveling from his home in Haiti to work in the neighboring country.

If you want a real - life heroine, try The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, a novel based on the life of a woman named Carrie McGavock; her Tennessee plantation home was used as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War.

Students hear captivating songs of the slaves, played in the background, as they view pictures and artifacts that depict the journey of the slaves from Africa, their lives here on the plantation, and their dreams of freedom.

For inspiration to discover the country known as the crossroads of the Americas, follow these Instagram accounts, showcasing Panama's eclectic array of activities, from life in the islands to the coffee plantations in the mountains.

The small cottages in Koloa you'll see are also known as cane houses because plantation workers once lived in such structures.

As well as seeing Machu Picchu they will be the guests of local communities and visit their coffee plantations, learning about rural life in the high AndeAs well as seeing Machu Picchu they will be the guests of local communities and visit their coffee plantations, learning about rural life in the high Andeas seeing Machu Picchu they will be the guests of local communities and visit their coffee plantations, learning about rural life in the high Andes.

Take a step back in time as we visit scenic Beaufort, and explore what life was like living on a southern plantation.

As a special treat, listen to a live performance of soulful plantation - life songs.

Traveling through rural Tanzania (where part of my family still lives) and seeing large plantations of sisal, they're quite impressive, I mean as an aesthetic experience, driving through rows and rows and rows, it's monumental.

The retreat will be sited in a 1798 West Indies — style plantation house on Bayou Road, but the foundation also bought the adjoining corner store to use as a meeting hall along with five small apartments to be renovated into living spaces for visiting artists.

The Program for Sustainable Production of Palm Oil, announced today by Brazilian President Lula da Silva, is novel in its approach to protecting standing forests while allowing cultivation in areas that have been deforested in the past, namely for use as short - lived sugarcane plantations or lumber operations.

If luxury living is more your cup of tea, then spacious, stunning custom homes come onto the real estate market in Garner fairly often, as does the occasional opulent Magnolia plantation.